June 12, 2012 By NCEL
Travis Craft of Cornelius is the most recent North Carolina Powerball player to win $1 million playing the game. His ticket for the June 9 drawing matched all five white balls to win the prize.
June 11, 2012 By NCEL
Rocky Bibee and his mother Linda Fulp, residents of Eden in Rockingham County, plan to use the $100,000 they won playing Carolina Black to purchase a car, take their family on a Disney World vacation and start a college fund for Bibee’s children.
June 5, 2012 By NCEL
Herbert Abernethy, a retiree from Asheboro in Randolph Count, played a combination of family birthdays and anniversaries to match all five numbers in the May 28 Cash 5 drawing, winning him $277,466.
June 4, 2012 By NCEL
Carlton Brock of Monroe and John Flynn of Winston-Salem are the winners of $20,000 racing-themed trips in the lottery’s Ultimate Fan game, officially-licensed by NASCAR®.
June 4, 2012 By NCEL
John Sellers, a retiree from Hendersonville in Henderson County, plans to use the $100,000 prize he won playing the lottery to boost his retirement fund.
June 4, 2012 By NCEL
The NCEL announces three new scratch-off games launching Tuesday, June 5.
May 30, 2012 By NCEL
Earlier this month, Desire Kilmer came to Wake County to visit her father. Before heading home, she bought a $1 Carolina Cash 5 ticket at the Variety Pic-Up on N.C. 97 in Wendell.
May 29, 2012 By NCEL
Shawn Elder had bought tickets for several daily drawings as the jackpot grew to $554,932. For the May 28 drawing, he had one of two tickets to match all five numbers to win half of the jackpot.
May 25, 2012 By NCEL
For John Murphy of Laurinburg, an errand to the store and a $2 Powerball ticket made him the most recent North Carolinian to win $1 million playing the lottery.
May 21, 2012 By NCEL
Georgia Burton of Durham decided to try her luck playing Mega Bucks on Saturday, so she purchased four tickets. Later that evening she scratched off prizes on each one, including the game’s $100,000 top prize.